Electrical packaging structure and liquid crystal display device having the same

ABSTRACT

An electrical packaging structure has a plurality of semiconductor chips arranged on a substrate and input wirings to the semiconductor chips connected thereto. The input wirings are distributed through a wiring board arranged on the substrate.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to an electrical packaging structure and aliquid crystal display device having the structure, and moreparticularly to a packaging structure of a chip-on-panel for connectinga semiconductor chip and further particularly to an electrical packagingstructure suitable for connecting a semiconductor chip to a displaysubstrate of a flat display device such as a liquid crystal displaydevice and a liquid crystal display device having the same.

2. Related Background Art

FIG. 1 shows a packing structure of a chip-on-panel for connecting asemiconductor chip 3 to a display substrate 1 which is a glass substrateof a liquid crystal display device. All input wirings of thesemiconductor chip are taken out from a connection port to an externalcircuit and the connection to an external circuit board is done by aflexible printed circuit board 7 or the like.

In such a structure, where a plurality of semiconductor chips 3 are tobe connected, the number of input wirings 4 increases in proportion tothe number of semiconductor chips 3, the number of electrode connectionsof the connecting port of the flexible printed circuit board 2 whichelectrically connect the input wirings 4 to the external circuitincreases, the area required for the connection increases, and thenumber of wirings of the flexible printed circuit board increases.

As the number of wirings of the flexible printed circuit boardincreases, the problems arise in that a probability of a defect in theconnection of the electrically connected ports (such as a break, a shortcircuit or an insufficient connection area) increases and yield islowered, or a probability of a break at the electrically connected pointduring the use of the device increases and reliability of the devicedecreases.

The increase of the number of connection points leads to the increase ofthe manufacturing cost, which frequently affects the compactness of theflexible printed circuit board and the compactness of the device.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is an object of the present invention to provide an electricalpackaging structure which can reduce the number of electricalconnections, reduce the area required for the connection and reduce thenumber of wirings of the flexible printed circuit board.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an electricalpackaging structure which reduces the probability of connection defectsuch as a break, a short circuit or insufficient strength at theelectrically connecting point and improves the reliability of thedevice.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an electricalpackaging structure which reduces the manufacturing cost, reduces thearea required for the wiring connection and reduces the size of theentire device.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a liquidcrystal display device having an electrical packaging structure of achip-on-panel for connecting a plurality of driving semiconductor chipsto a display substrate of the liquid crystal display device, whichreduces the number of connecting electrodes of the display substrate andthe external circuit, reduces the area required for the connection andreduces the number of wirings of the flexible printed circuit board usedfor the connection of the display substrate and the external circuit.

It is still a further object of the present invention to provide anelectrical packaging structure having a plurality of semiconductor chipsarranged on a substrate and input wirings connected to the semiconductorchips, in which the input wirings are distributed through a wiring boardarranged on the substrate.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a liquidcrystal display device having a packaging structure of a chip-on-panelhaving a plurality of driving semiconductor chips arranged on thedisplay substrate of the liquid crystal display device, in which theinput wirings on the display substrate to the semiconductor chips aredistributed through the wiring board arranged on the display substrate.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a schematic plan view of a prior art device,

FIG. 2 shows a schematic plan view of a packaging structure inaccordance with one preferred embodiment of the present invention, and

FIG. 3 shows a conceptual view of a wiring board for distributing inputwirings to driving semiconductor chips.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

A preferred embodiment of the present invention is now explained withreference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows a schematic plan view of a packaging structure in thepresent embodiment. In the present embodiment, the packaging structureis applied to a liquid crystal display device which uses aferro-electric liquid crystal.

In FIG. 2, numerals 1 and 2 denote first and second glass substrateswhich face each other with a liquid crystal layer (not shown) interposedtherebetween. A plurality of semiconductor chips 3 for driving theliquid crystal display device are face-down bonded to the glasssubstrate 1. Numeral 4 denotes input wirings to the semiconductor chips3. More wirings are used in an actual liquid crystal display device.Numeral 5 denotes a wiring board having internal wirings fordistributing the input wirings to the semiconductor chips 3. It isface-down bonded to the glass substrate 1. The input wirings 4 are wiredfrom the wiring board 5 to the semiconductor chips 3. Numeral 6 denotesoutput wirings from the wiring board 5. They are distributed to theinput wirings 4 through the wiring substrate 5. Numeral 7 denotes aflexible printed circuit board for connecting an external circuit andthe liquid crystal display device. They are connected by soldering or ananisotropy conduction bonding film or the like.

In order to solve the above problems, in the packaging structure of thechip-on-panel of the present invention which connects a plurality ofdriving semiconductor chips to the display substrate of the liquidcrystal display device, the input wirings on the display substrate tothe semiconductor chips are distributed through the wiring board 5connected to the display substrate. The wiring board 5 may be asemiconductor chip.

In accordance with the present invention, since the input wirings on thedisplay substrate to the driving semiconductor chips are wired throughthe wiring board 5 having the internal wiring, the number of connectionelectrodes of the display substrate and the external circuit is reduced.

In case where the semiconductor chip having the connection electrodeswired by a semiconductor process is used as the wiring board 5, thewiring board may be treated equally to the driving semiconductor chipsof the liquid crystal display device.

The wiring board 5 is now explained in detail.

FIG. 3 shows a conceptual view of the wiring substrate 5. In FIG. 3,numeral 8 denotes input connection electrodes which are distributed orso-called matrix-connected to connection electrodes 9 through commonwirings 10.

In case where the semiconductor chip having the wirings formed by thesemiconductor process is used as the wiring board 5, the semiconductorchip may be connected to the glass substrate 1 by the same means as thatfor connecting the driving semiconductor chips 3 to the glasssubstrate 1. The only requirement is that the semiconductor chip has aninternal wiring structure, and it is not necessary that the connectionto the devices in the chip have been made for signal processing purpose.

The wiring board 5 may have wirings on an insulative substrate or on asubstrate having an insulative surface, such as a glass substrate withwirings or a ceramic substrate with wirings.

The wiring board may be a planar (two-dimensional matrix) structure or athree-dimensional structure.

The semiconductor chips 3 and the wiring board 5 may be connected to theglass substrate 1 by grounding the connection electrodes on the glasssubstrate 1, spraying charged conductive fine particles onto the glasssubstrate 1, depositing the conductive fine particles to the connectionelectrodes of the glass substrate 1, and connecting the semiconductorchips 3 and the wiring board 5 by an insulative bonding material.

Alternatively, the semiconductor chips 3 and the wiring board 5 may beconnected to the glass substrate 1 by face-up bonding the semiconductorchips 3 and the wiring board 5 to the glass substrate 1 and connectingthem by wire bonding.

The above objects can be achieved by using the packaging structure ofthe present invention.

Since the input wirings on the display substrate to the plurality ofdriving semiconductor chips are wired through the wiring board havingthe internal wiring, the number of connection electrodes of the displaysubstrate and the external circuit may be reduced, the area required forthe connections may be reduced, the number of wirings of the flexibleprinted circuit board used for the connection of the display substrateand the external circuit may be reduced, and the cost may be reduced.

In case where the semiconductor chip having the connection electrodeswired by the semiconductor process is used as the wiring board, thesemiconductor chip as the wiring board may be connected to the glasssubstrate by the same means as that for connecting the drivingsemiconductor chips of the liquid crystal display device to the glasssubstrate.

A highly reliable electrical packaging structure and a liquid crystaldisplay device having the structure are provided by the presentinvention.

Since better clarity and higher drive speed are required for the liquidcrystal display device (particularly that which uses ferro-electricliquid crystal which is suitable for high clarity), there is a trend ofincreasing of the number of semiconductor chips. The adoption of theelectrical packaging structure of the present invention not onlycontributes to the compactness and high reliability of the device butalso significantly contributes to the improvement of image quality.

While the packaging structure of the present invention has beendescribed in connection with the liquid crystal display, it may also beapplied to a display device (flat display) other than the liquid crystaldisplay or a read sensor or the like in which a plurality ofsemiconductor chips are used and the number of connecting wirings issubstantial.

The present invention may be modified without departing from the spiritof the present invention.

What is claimed is:
 1. An electrical packaging structure, comprising:aplurality of semiconductor chips; a substrate having said plurality ofsemiconductor chips arranged thereon; input wirings connected to saidsemiconductor chips; and a wiring board arranged on said substrate andreceiving said input wirings.
 2. The electrical packaging structureaccording to claim 1, wherein said wiring board is a semiconductor chip.3. The electrical packaging structure according to claim 1, wherein saidwiring board has wirings formed on one of either an insulated substrateand a substrate having an insulated surface.
 4. The electrical packagingstructure according to claim 1, wherein said wiring board iselectrically connected to said substrate by bonding material having oneof either conductive particles and wire-bonding.
 5. The electricalpackaging structure according to claim 1, further comprising outputwires connecting said wiring board with a printed circuit board.
 6. Theliquid crystal display device having a packaging structure of achip-on-panel, comprising:a plurality of driving semiconductor chips; adisplay substrate of the liquid crystal display device having saidplurality of semiconductor chips arranged thereon; input wiringsdisposed on said display substrate and connected to said semiconductorchips; and a wiring board arranged on said display substrate andreceiving said input wirings.
 7. The liquid crystal display deviceaccording to claim 6, wherein said wiring board is a semiconductor chip.8. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 6, wherein theliquid crystal display device uses a ferro-electric liquid crystal. 9.The liquid crystal display device according to claim 6, wherein saidwiring board has wirings formed on one of either an insulated substrateand a substrate having an insulated surface.
 10. The liquid crystaldisplay device according to claim 6, wherein said wiring board iselectrically connected to said substrate by bonding material having oneof either conductive particles and wire-bonding.
 11. The liquid crystaldisplay device according to claim 6, further comprising output wiresconnecting said wiring board with a printed circuit board.